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Singapore company says it did not work with Libya

A Singapore company implicated in the sale of components for Libya's nuclear program has denied any wrongdoing, The Straits Times reported yesterday.

Bikar Metal Asia, the Singapore-based subsidiary of the German firm Bikar Metalle, was named in Malaysian newspaper reports as having supplied the raw materials to Malaysia's Scomi Precision Engineering.

The Malaysian plant has been awash in controversy after the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, on Thursday described it as one of the largest links in disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's network of black-market nuclear parts.

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has promised that the police will investigate without fear or favor. The factory is owned by a group whose controlling shareholder is the prime minister's son.

The trail has led to a Dubai-based company that ordered the parts, allegedly for Libya's nuclear program.
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